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Frank

Frank
Let's go see

The strident orchestral Pathe music accompanied a valiant pilot donning his helmet.

A clipped English voiceover yelled through the static of the recording. "Here we have an example of British daring-do. The great explorer, Commander Simoof, getting ready for the ultimate trip, through a Black Hole. His famous Cobra, The Curious Cat, has been heavily modified for this expedition. He joked that it's now just a flying shield generator.

And there he goes. All our hopes and wishes go with him."

They pieced together his last ever message from over the decades, "I'm approaching the event.. horizon.. Let's... go.... see......"
 
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MrMogadon

MrMogadon
The (Apparently) Never Ending Story

Space, a black, uncaring vastness, mostly bereft of interest.
Sometimes however, some entertainment for the gods of whimsy.
An asteroid belt.
A space wreck: total collapse imminent.
An anaconda, matt black and non-reflective, a black hole against the stars, approaches the wreck.
The wreck collapses; a sealed compartment shatters and a figure is ejected into space.
Aware of little other than the approaching darkness, the figure is momentarily surprised at the absence of a bright light, before unconsciousness.
The stolen stealth prototype Calcutta, swiftly picks up the figure. Weak life signs still detectable.
“Live Kalran my brother”, the Captain whispers

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Hope you don't mind Erik, I got the whole black-hole of Calcutta idea going and that led me to think of Kalran and how in the 100th episode Entry - The End there was still a slight sliver of chance.
 
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Frank

Frank
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01 - Splendour - Cabin Fever
02 - Listeri69 - The Examination
03 - Simoof - Black Holes Eggsplained
04 - Dan "Too busy to join the forum" Grubb - An Ode to Shouty Man (with added science)
05 - Alien - Block Hole
06 - EidLeWeise - Singularity at the Over Easy Mug
07 - psykokow - Role Play
08 - STRONTIUM DOG - Tales of the unexpected
09 - Erik Marcaigh - Not Done With You Yet
10 - Ian Phillips - Breaking point.
11 - Frank - Let's go see
12 - MrMogadon - The (Apparently) Never Ending Story

The challenge we are setting you is to write a story in exactly 100 words. Not a word more. Not a word less.

insanephoton won it last week and set us the topic of
'BLACK HOLES'

The story should be set in the Elite Universe and the exact number of 100 words does not include the title. On Sunday the winner shall have the honour of choosing the next topic.

A good place to compose your story is recommended by Erik, http://www.wordcounter.net/

Entries to a poll will be limited to the first 20 Drabbles submitted, and the poll might go up earlier than Thurday night if all those slots are filled but don't let that stop you from showing us what you would have entered in the contest. Friday night the live readings occur http://twitch.tv/psykokow so don't miss it, all drabbles are read out... 7pm BST

Please bear in mind that this is a family forum, read by little people with impressionable minds and old folks who are easily shocked. We want as many people as possible to feel comfortable on this thread. Don't write anything that you wouldn't want to read out in front of your family. Just remember, dignity!.. Always dignity.
 
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cleonymus

cleonymus
The last dance



"God that's beautiful" exclaimed Commander Cleonymus.
"Thank you captain" purred the ships AI.
"Not you Spanner" said Cleonymous, thinking he really should change the AI's name to something more in keeping with it's sultry voice.
“The star system. That's what is beautiful! Now we are above the plane of the ecliptic you can see it for what it is. Six black holes in a perfect dance of destruction”
“Still we had better plot our route out of here, while we are on the right side of the event horizon. Open up the system map”

But Spanner was sulking.
 

Missileman

Banned
Missileman
'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'

It had been called the event of the millennium, even the major powers put aside differences to allow probes into V616-Monocerotis

The star had been collapsing for centuries.

Inside a lone ship patrolled the system mainly to ward off any explorers who may unwittingly jump into the system.

It was only a matter of hours before the gravitational collapse would overpower their jumpdrives,

'prepare to vacate the system'

At that moment a signature appeared on the radar, a frigate appearing from the swirling black mass of witchspace. with one message,

'Let us test this weapon, engage the wormhole creation drive'
 

Erik Marcaigh

Erik Marcaigh
MrMogadon said:
Space, a black, uncaring vastness, mostly bereft of interest.
Sometimes however, some entertainment for the gods of whimsy.
An asteroid belt.
A space wreck: total collapse imminent.
An anaconda, matt black and non-reflective, a black hole against the stars, approaches the wreck.
The wreck collapses; a sealed compartment shatters and a figure is ejected into space.
Aware of little other than the approaching darkness, the figure is momentarily surprised at the absence of a bright light, before unconsciousness.
The stolen stealth prototype Calcutta, swiftly picks up the figure. Weak life signs still detectable.
“Live Kalran my brother”, the Captain whispers

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Hope you don't mind Erik, I got the whole black-hole of Calcutta idea going and that led me to think of Kalran and how in the 100th episode Entry - The End there was still a slight sliver of chance.
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I don't mind at all!
 

moose666

moose666
Mile high treason against the Emperor

"All rise!"
The courtroom stood as the judge began to pass sentence

"For the crime of Mile High Treason, you are hearby sentenced to be spaghettified, until you are dead."
"Can't I be spaghettified until i'm sorry?", the man in the dock cheekily asked.
The judge glared, one of the guards whacked the condemned with the butt of his gun.

"Tomorrow, you will be taken to Mintaka, whence you will be jettisoned into the black hole there, and your spaghettification shall commence. May you bask in the Emperor's forgiveness"

"Case closed!"
With a bang of his gavel, court was dismissed.
 

Edith_The_Hutt

Edith_The_Hutt
A (Mostly) Harmless Invitation

The legendary Black Hole Nightclub is a re-purposed prototype Occelus star port. It jumps from system to system serving the best drinks, the best drugs and best music known to man. When the Black Hole shows up in your system, everybody who's anybody either pays through the nose to get in, or manages to score a free VIP invite...

Angel's eyes flicked between the iridescent black card in her fingers, the note which came with it and her poverty-red account balance.

Free Drinks! Muchos Creds!
Be there.
--Dread

"I'm about to have another adventure," she thought, downing her Hullstripper

"Crap."

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With apologies to Kate Russell for the use of her characters :)
 
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Galactic Midden

Galactic Midden
Why you shouldn't annoy your supply teacher

His arm waving, Robbie fidgeted urgently in his front row seat. "Veronica, Veronica!"

Veronica sighed and turned to her most recent nemesis the obnoxious know-it-all, Robbie Nobbit.

"Now Robbie", Veronica interjected "pupils must say Miss Windermere".

Raising one eyebrow and flaring his nostrils Robbie began another of his epic monologues. The class sighed.

"But Veronica you're factually incorrect, no doubt due to limited intelligence and shoddy upbringing, everyone knows singularities cannot be created by simple science teachers, I demand you prove your ridiculous claim. <POP!>

Smiling happily exiled weapons specialist Windermere successfully concluded her first chair based miniaturised sink-hole test.
 

W4rSkuLL

W4rSkuLL
Growing

She could feel her body being stretched and blood started pouring from her mouth. Her Asp outfitted for exploring had exited hyperspace to close to the giant BL-S9. The ship was falling apart.
Metal screeching and being twisted to scrap. Her mind were being disintegrated. But just before she transformed into a cloud of elementary particles Sonja thought about home. About her daughter playing with her friends and her husbands warm touch.
A lifetime flashed before her as the black hole devoured the human and her ship in a cascade of light and atoms.
The giant had grown slightly bigger.
 

Frank

Frank
Edith_The_Hutt said:
Are we allowed to edit our stories once posted? I'd like to change mine a little.
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I guess it depends on who's hosting. When I host the poll I copy and paste from the forum, so you're okay to fiddle with your words right until I close the gate for entries. I'll host but I might be a little late in putting the poll up. It's a busy week for me and I don't know exactly what I'm doing on Thursday.
 

Galactic Midden

Galactic Midden
Frank said:
I guess it depends on who's hosting. When I host the poll I copy and paste from the forum, so you're okay to fiddle with your words right until I close the gate for entries. I'll host but I might be a little late in putting the poll up. It's a busy week for me and I don't know exactly what I'm doing on Thursday.
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Tinkering is allowed right up to poll time in my book. Do you want me hoist the poll Frank? I promise not to be bonkered out of my eyeballs like last time :)
 

Alien

Alien
psykokow said:
You got a better one planned then???
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Nope. (8 chars)

EDIT: Kow, I withdraw my drabble, Midden asks me a question and I reply with a simple "Nope" and you rep me for it? Am I missing something here?

Oh wait, this is Psykokow I'm asking ... he thinks cracking an egg into a pan of boiling water and then seeing if it'll boil over is fun. :p
 
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